Program Details

For children ages 5 through 12, Kids ‘R’ Kids offers what parents are looking for ~ a safe environment for additional learning/study time and supervised activities.

Many families must choose a program that fits their child’s year-round schedule as it pertains to elementary school, summer activities and holidays. Kids ‘R’ Kids uses a Monthly Idea Calendar that offers daily activity suggestions.

Our before and after school program offers the school-age child a welcomed break from the structured academic learning to a variety of Activity Zones to further enhance a child’s creativity, problem-solving, and decision making skills. In our fun, productive and supervised environment each child also has the opportunity to develop special friendships.

By meeting with parents, our teachers can determine what each child requires after school. Perhaps an older child needs more help in order to complete homework assignments, or a younger child may need special tutoring in reading or math. This also is a good time to let the children learn more about computers, which are available at the school. But our teachers know that after a busy day at school, children need time to play. Supervised playgrounds are divided by age groups and give each child the chance to direct that special energy only children have.

The Kids ‘R’ Kids school age program is designed to extend your child’s academic learning from the traditional classroom setting into our quality learning center.

 Winter, Spring and Summer Camps

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Your Child’s Classroom

Our gym is “the place” for school age children. Before and after school they can be found playing games, hanging out with friends, engaged in a project or enjoying our special age appropriate playground.

We want families to feel secure regarding the care of their children. Family members have the ability and pleasure of viewing their child from their personal computer at home or work by using a private password to gain entrance to our video camera system, Watch Me Grow. Parents can observe their child in the classroom, the Kids’ Café, the Learning Center and on the playground.

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How We Communicate

Communication is an essential component of the high-quality care here at Kids ‘R’ Kids.

Daily conversations, telephone calls, newsletters, parent/teacher conferences and online calendar are all communication tools used to keep you informed and involved.

All of our classrooms, including the gym, are equipped with telephones and you are welcome to call at any time of the day to check in and see how your child is doing or share information too lengthy or private to share during drop-off time.

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Useful Tips

Drop-Off Schedule

If you have two or more children in our care, we ask that you drop off your older child(ren) before you enter the infant or toddler areas. Please pick your infant or toddler up first to reduce traffic and exposure to illness and germs in the younger children’s area. We also recommend that parents with more than one child in the school stagger pick up times to ensure timely pickup. For example, schedule your baby’s pickup time at 6:00 PM and your preschooler’s pickup time at 6:15 PM. That way, if you want to spend time talking with your child’s teacher, you will not be late picking up your preschool child.

Infection Control Policy

Maintaining health and preventing the spread of contagious diseases are responsibilities shared by parents and our staff. Our staff is trained in illness-prevention practices that limit the spread of infections. Regular laundering of naptime sheets and blankets, the use of gloves during diaper changing and the employment of the proper cleansing agents, help in reducing the spread of infections. Most colds and viruses are spread through fecal/oral contamination. For this reason, our diapering procedure is posted and is followed without exception. We ask that you also follow our procedures when changing your child at school.

A complete copy of our Health Policy can be found in your Parent Handbook. We ask that you work with us to help maintain a healthy environment. Our experience is that if parents practice a “no sick children at school” policy, in the long run, all children will be healthier and parents will miss less work.

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